Marble Arch; London, UK.The Carrara Marble was highly prized during the Renaissance and has been alm
Marble Arch; London, UK.The Carrara Marble was highly prized during the Renaissance and has been almost continuously quarried for at least the last 2200 years. The marble is lower Jurassic in age and found in the Apuane Alps around 50 km northwest of Pisa in Italy.The marble is a homogenous equigranular euthedral fine grained (50-200 µm) white rock. The mineralogy of the marble is almost 100% calcite, however few percent of accessory minerals (dolomite, muscovite, plagioclase and epidote) and trace minerals (quartz, chlorite, graphite, pyrite, haematite and magnetite) also occur.The Carrara Marble was used for some of the world’s most impressive buildings and sculptures (e.g., the Pantheon and Michaelangelo’s David and the Marble Arch).~ JMImage Credit: Marble Arch, Wikimedia Commons: http://bit.ly/1FsQXcdMore Info:Visiting Carrara Marble Quarries: http://bit.ly/1JkfKq0Carraraite Mineral Data: http://bit.ly/1K97wjK -- source link
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